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The Guardian - Alternative top 100 albums ever (1999)

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Albums in List

Pos Album Artist
1 Bryter layter Nick Drake
2 Rain dogs Tom Waits
3 The Band The Band
4 No other Gene Clark
5 Five leaves left Nick Drake
6 A hard day's night The Beatles
7 Curtis Curtis Mayfield
8 A wizard, a true star Todd Rundgren
9 All things must pass George Harrison
10 Something/anything? Todd Rundgren
11 The piper at the gates of dawn Pink floyd
12 Radio city Big star
13 The gilded palace of sin Flying burrito brothers
14 I am Earth, Wind & Fire
15 Grace Jeff Buckley
16 Isn't anything My bloody Valentine
17 Scott 4 Scott Walker
18 Buffalo springfield again Buffalo springfield
19 New York tendaberry Laura Nyro
20 Fresh Sly and the family Stone
21 Holland The Beach boys
22 Searching for the young soul rebels Dexy's midnight runners
23 Court and spark Joni Mitchell
24 Giant steps The Boo radleys
25 Countdown to ecstasy Steely dan
26 Dusty in Memphis Dusty Springfield
27 Music for a new society John Cale
28 For your pleasure Roxy music
29 Maggot brain Funkadelic
30 Hats The Blue Nile
31 Fear of a black planet Public enemy
32 I'm your man Leonard Cohen
33 Fear of music Talking heads
34 Risqué Chic
35 Every picture tells a story Rod Stewart
36 The hissing of summer lawns Joni Mitchell
37 A love supreme John Coltrane
38 Raw power Iggy and the Stooges
39 Berlin Lou Reed
40 Tim Hardin 2 Tim Hardin
41 Fun house The Stooges
42 Suicide Suicide
43 Young Americans David Bowie
44 Tonight's the night Neil Young
45 Raising hell Run DMC
46 Young, gifted and black Aretha Franklin
47 Rock bottom Robert Wyatt
48 Clear spot Captain Beefheart and the Magic band
49 Music from Big pink The Band
50 The heart of saturday night Tom Waits
51 Don't stand me down Dexy's midnight runners
52 Hollywood town hall Jayhawks
53 Metal box Public Image Ltd
54 Warehouse : songs and stories Hüsker dü
55 Live/Dead Grateful dead
56 Moby grape Moby grape
57 Slanted and enchanted Pavement
58 Sketches of Spain Miles Davis
59 The Beach boys today! The Beach boys
60 Eli and the thirteenth confession Laura Nyro
61 Cut The Slits
62 Too-rye-ay Dexy's midnight runners
63 The Belle album Al Green
64 Stranded Roxy music
65 The Velvet underground The Velvet underground
66 Dixie chicken Little feat
67 The modern dance Pere Ubu
68 Selected ambient works 85-92 Aphex twin
69 Radio-activity Kraftwerk
70 Loaded The Velvet underground
71 On the beach Neil Young
72 Roots The Everly brothers
73 Eat to the beat Blondie
74 To bring you my love PJ Harvey
75 Todd Todd Rundgren
75 When I was a boy Jane Siberry
76 Third/Sister lovers Big star
77 Odessey & oracle Zombies
78 69 A.R. Kane
79 Hot buttered soul Isaac Hayes
80 Pink moon Nick Drake
81 We're only in it for the money The Mothers of Invention
82 Sunflower The Beach boys
83 Weld Neil Young & Crazy horse
84 Zen arcade Hüsker dü
85 Get yer ya-ya's out The Rolling stones
86 Temple of Low men Crowded house
87 Sefronia Tim Buckley
88 Strange days The Doors
89 Bitches brew Miles Davis
89 Tupelo honey Van Morrison
90 Paradise circus Lilac time
91 Al Green is love Al Green
92 Life's rich pageant R.E.M.
93 Summer days (and summer nights) The Beach boys
94 Crooked rain, crooked rain Pavement
95 Begin Millennium
96 Steve McQueen Prefab sprout
97 Crazysexycool TLC
98 Midnight marauders A Tribe called quest
99 The idiot Iggy Pop
100 Gris-gris Dr. John